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2013-04-12

fabric collage

Hi,

Today I would like to present you something a little bit different. It’s fabric art collage. From such a long time I am really fascinated the potential hidden in textiles. It so many designs, textures and thicknesses ready to use. A lot of available on market medias are you can use for decorating a fabrics. My private opinion is that mixed media work with fabrics is a little bit more challenging than with paper. This is impression is at the beginning when you start, mainly because textiles absorb media in different way than scrapbooking paper. But the creation is a fun of testing, experimenting and discovering new way of expression, isn’t it? I will very happy if after reading of this text you also would like to try this kind of mixed-media techniques.

This is the next page in my artjournal with old photos. At the beginning I have painted pieces of fabrics the white acrylic paint. It is better to do this using a dry brush because the paint stayed on the top of surface with nice clearances. After adding water the paint is absorbed deeper in textile and effect is completely different because the fabric is covered in whole area by wet spot.

Next I fixed the pieces of tissue wrap papers and when whole background was dry I stamped two different 3rd Eye designs by black StazOn. Is good to remember that stamping on fabric is not the same as stamping on paper and textiles differently react with inks. The best ink for stamping on this kind of background is the StazOn because this ink won’t be smear when the other medias are applied on the surface.

I also used PanPastel in grey colour to distress a little bit the edges of fabrics and tag with photo. The background of tag is stamped gesso mixed with Distress Ink. This technique was presented in very friendly way by Anai from our DT few months ago on her blog. I added structural pasta to this gesso mixture to create more convex texture. I hope that it’s visible on photos.

All metal embellishments like flowers or breaststroke for curtains are painted the LuminArte Silks in two colors from blue palette. I have tested that this paints also can be successfully used for decorating fabrics.